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Once :ordering herbs from an
herb catalogue, she said the
herb garden
"mushroomed"
o
from there. said she visits
nurseries to look
herbsshe
many not have planted. "From
there it just ;got away from ,epi"
And i' nce: her, garden had
expanded to three times the size
it was, she said she: realized
there were too many herbs for
she, and her husband to eat, so
she opened her garden 'to the
ubhc.
""erbs, are s friendly. They
ata mice to have out" there.' She
said it was nice to have the
smell of the herbsin the air
while working with. them. "Itts
such .anice place to be out
there. They are always giving
off • a fragrance." And this fra-
grance, she ` said, draws more
bees, hummingbirds and butter-
flies each year.
y to look'after-.
hey are so easy t ' look
After," she said ,of the herbs,
addingthat .herbs are "hearty"
perennials, which means they
will grow back year after year.
She also made note of the
natural health benefits of herbs,
such as blending certain herbs
together. such as lovage,. for a
salt substitute for those on .a
low -salt: diet, and using parsley
forbreath. fresh Oen usuallyfrom June until
October, Janson said she has
met a lot of great ,ole who
come to to the Se :Judea.
dea..
People from onto or
lchr an vac uionin8 in.
Bayfield cornout to walk
around the garden to pick and
decide what they want. "They.
seem to really enjoy ..it here,"
she adding that many often
spend an hour or two wandering
finding different herbs they
have never heard of.
Summer • lotime fir
,f oI song wltais h k wusy rk ,g . s
her herb garden also kelps busy
with other crop work and home
shows. The horses are part of
their TanglewocK1 Fates .which
she said got its name from the
fact that "o -we have a tangled:
bunch of enterprises here? -She
rideshorses in western shows
and gives lessons and also' uses
the horse . manure for fertilizer
on herbrganic gardens.
While the summerkeeps her
brisy, the winter gives her a
chance to slow down -and to
plan new things for her garden.
in..the summer. sP°Sometimes it
n Wer. turns out pin .summer as f
.planned for it in winter," she
said.
Herbs found in the Secret
Garden include sage, parsley,.
chives, rosemary, French tar -
ragout spearmint, lovage and
two types of oregano.
Dairy Farmers of Ontario .(DFO) reported
marketngs of 2361 billion litres ,of milk for the
fiscal year "ending October 31, 1995,. The figure
represents an increase of 46 million litres, or 2.0
per cent, from previous
year.
For this milk, DFO
billed processors $1.3.
billion. The organization
retained $51.5, nui1i n for
8.
milk -transportation,$. $
nr�ailbon for ad' ♦nnistratiou • of the marketin Sys-
tem, "$29.8 million for .market expansion and
about $118,000 to support the Dairy Science
Research Chair,
In addition, DFO collected from ; producers on
in
1
behalf of the: federal. government $40,6 million in
levies to cover .the costs of exporting surplus
slum milk powder and $18.6 million to cover the
export of surplus product. The organization also.
collected $1.4 million • for
the Ontario Dairy Herd
Improvement Corporation
in. support of milk recording
programs
..The $1:15 billion
bal-
ance -
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8,000 licenced dairy farms in Ontario which sup-
port more than 13,000 families.
Dairy Farmers ofOntario i da non-profit dairy
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